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lusty

[luhs-tee] / ˈlʌs ti /


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Fans who had previously been happy cheering wins with lusty renditions of “Sweet Caroline” don’t mind that it has been shoved aside.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

Biden was greeted with a lusty ovation lasting more than 4½ minutes, by far the longest of the night.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2024

Watson set the tone early on with some lusty carries and it was the flanker, playing for game-time against Ireland, who started the rout.

From BBC Sep. 30, 2023

The best parts of “Wildflower” involve Bea and Ethan’s romance, which is genuinely sweet and realistically lusty, even as it’s complicated by the challenges of their differing social classes and Bea’s many anxieties.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 24, 2023

But he was ashamed, and yet half proud too, as one feels himself who is still lusty and a man when others hold him to be only grandfather.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

Its cuisine is arguably less sophisticated than Provence’s, and yet it is more firmly rooted in the land it sprang from, and it is, I put to you, enjoyed with lustier abandon.

From New York Times Mar. 15, 2017

Heartthrob invokes somber, marble notebook dumps as truthfully as it portrays its lustier foil.

From Time Feb. 1, 2013

Many a poor pernicious anemiac, for whom liver meant lustier living, can no longer afford to buy it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its mannered, delicate style seemed so ill-suited to the topic that young Hu dashed off some lustier lines of his own.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Germans sang lustier and more voices came in until they killed the parody even as they had killed “Auld Lang Syne.”

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

A year after the loudest and lustiest of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments was played amid eerie silence and empty seats, the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2021

The infant is now one of the lustiest war babies, may grow so big on war profits that it will be able to go on thriving after the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not only is Volpone Wolfit's liveliest production, and Volpone his lustiest role, but the play itself is one of the world's masterpieces of sardonic comedy.

From Time Magazine Archive

The lustiest cheers at the vast military parade marking Israel's 25th anniversary in Jerusalem last May were neither for tanks and paratroopers passing the reviewing stand nor Phantoms whooshing overhead.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of all drinkers of sōma he is the lustiest; he swills many lakes of it, and he eats mightily of the flesh of bulls and buffaloes.

From Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India by Lionel D. Barnett




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